NOTD: China Glaze Electric Nights Collection!

When I'm feeling stumped on what kind of nail art to do, lately I've been gravitating towards doing this. Since I picked up some polishes from the new China Glaze Electric Nights collection, and since I couldn't decide on which one to use, plastic bag decals seemed like a pretty good idea to me!

Polishes used (all from China Glaze):

Red-Y To Rave (neon coral-y red crème)

Plur-Ple (bright medium cool-toned purple crème)

UV Meant To Be (deep sky blue crème)

I finally changed my nail shape back! Granted they were oval for just a couple weeks, but I missed my squares! I wanted to go back to squares so badly even if it meant sporting some nubs for a while (well, they're nubs to me)...

Before I even started on my nails, I made sure I had all my decals ready to go. I used a little sandwich bag and cut the sides so that it laid flat in one long strip. Then I painted stripes of the three colors I used, making sure they were right next to each other. I used a toothpick immediately after placing the stripes and dragged it across in a zig-zag motion so that they all ended up looking like this:

I let those dry for about an hour before using them.

While I was waiting for my decals to dry, I painted my nails with one coat of Red-Y To Rave. Let me just pause for a moment to explain how AMAZING THIS POLISH IS OKAY. Even though this polish is like, eye-searingly neon, it doesn't need a white base to stand out. Two coats and it looks like it does in the bottle. It's that opaque. For a neon that's incredible! It's so bright, my camera kinda freaked out when I tried to take a picture of it (so just imagine it a wee bit brighter and more orange than what's shown here). I wanted to pick it up after hearing everyone rave about it all over the internet, and let me tell you that it does not disappoint. Seriously. If you love bright, in-your-face, eye-searing, LOUD colors, then you need this now! It's so fun!

After waiting for Red-Y To Rave to dry, I worked one nail at a time by carefully peeling off one of the decals with a pointed cuticle pusher/cleaner type of thing, placing it on my nail how I wanted, smoothing it out with a pointed q-tip, and then getting rid of the excess (I used a small pair of scissors for the free edge area and an orange stick dipped into polish remover for around my cuticles). After all my nails had the decals on them, I cleaned up around my cuticles with an angled brush dipped into an acetone-based polish remover, and finished off with two coats of a fast-drying top coat.

While I'm not too thrilled with how a few nails turned out, overall I really like this! I absolutely love how these colors work together. I only ended up getting five polishes from this collection (the other two being Treble Maker and Can I Get An Untz Untz), but now I really want to get the rest of them; They look amazing!

Thanks for reading!